Promotion officials Wednesday announced the bout, which takes place
at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, Canada, and airs on MTV2 and Epix.
Additionally, a previously reported welterweight scrap between
Ryan
Ford and Luis Santos
has been made official, as “The Real Deal” makes his Bellator debut
against the experienced “Sapo.”

Chandler, 25, has yet to taste defeat as a professional. The
two-time Strikeforce
veteran joined the Bellator ranks in 2010 and won the promotion’s
Season 4 lightweight tournament, posting victories over Marcin Held,
Lloyd
Woodard and Patricky
Freire before toppling divisional kingpin Eddie
Alvarez to win the strap this past November. Chandler will make
the first defense of his crown against the Season 6 lightweight
tournament winner, but he must first take care of business against
the veteran Gono.

“I’m just excited to get back into the cage,” Chandler said in the
official release. “I fought four times in 2011 and I’m ready to get
back to work. Gono has beaten some of the best fighters in the
sport, and this should be a good test for me.”

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